Cuba's once-promising economy, fueled by sugar exports and booming tourism, was dramatically destroyed by Fidel Castro's ...

Fidel Castro’s legacy to the world mirrors this quotation accurately. The death of Fidel Castro, a global iconic leader, should exhort us to think strategically about transformatory leadership ...

Fidel and his closest associates were forced to initiate some economic reforms (such as legalizing the use of the dollar and revitalizing tourism) to ensure the regime’s survival during the 1990s.

Ray Walser, PhD, is a retired Foreign Service Officer and former senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. Image: Fidel Castro in 2005. Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons/Volker Hüttig ...

Historians will debate Castro’s legacy for decades to come but his revolution’s accomplishments and failures are on open display in today’s Cuba, which - even with the reforms of recent ...

Cuba’s economic growth has all but stalled because of negative factors including the U.S. trade embargo that has remained in place since the early days of the Cold War.

COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Fidel Castro that Sam Riddle and many other African-Americans admired was not the brutal revolutionary dictator who plunged Cuba into economic ...

DETROIT (AP) — The Fidel Castro that Sam Riddle and many other African-Americans admired was not the revolutionary dictator who plunged Cuba into economic ruin and held the island nation in an ...

Longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro died on Friday. Steve Inskeep talks to Dan Restrepo about his legacy. Restrepo advised President Obama for many years on issues related to Latin America.

When Fidel Castro marched into Havana in January 1959 at the head of his troop of bearded revolutionaries, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev were all in power, and the ...

Fidel and his closest associates were forced to initiate some economic reforms (such as legalizing the use of the dollar and revitalizing tourism) to ensure the regime’s survival during the 1990s.